Authors: Raymond Carver
All of Us (41 page)
| 19 | the / that AUP |
25
MY BOAT
:
1st
in
Fiction Magazine
[London] 4.3 (June-July 1985): 17; in
IAML
106—7. Based on RC’s revisions in the first and all subsequent printings of the paperback edition of
WWCT
(1st pbk.), the following emendation has been made to the copy-text (1st ed.):
| 8 | Annie, Jane 1st pbk. / Cindy, Jean 1st ed., IAML |
Other variants:
| 4 | Hayden / Dan 1st , AUP |
| 5 | George, Harold, Don / George, Bob, Michael, Don 1st , |
| | AUP |
| 8 | And Kristina, Merry, Catherine, Diane, Sally, Annick, Pat, Judith, Susie. |
| | 1st , AUP |
26
WORK
: first five lines quoted in the article “In the Works” by Tom Jenks in
Esquire
102.2 (Aug. 1984): 114.
1st
complete in
New Letters
51.2 (Winter 1984—5): 16; in
Sunday Times
[London] 7 June 1987: 57,
IAML
113.
27
IN THE YEAR
2020: separately published as a broadside “on the occasion of an event honoring the life and work of RC” (Berkeley: Okeanos Press, 1993). The event was a public reading held at Black Oak Books in Berkeley, Calif., on 9 Oct. 1993.
28
THE JUGGLER AT
HEAVEN’S GATE
: 1st
in
Tendril
[Green Harbor, Mass.] 19—20 (1985): 414.
Title: “The Juggler”
1st
Subtitle: “(Or, The Scene to Remember from
Heaven’s Gate
)”
1st
| 17 | emigrants / landed emigrants 1st |
| 24 | Juggling / A juggler 1st |
29
THE FISHING POLE OF THE DROWNED MAN
:
1st
in
Tendril
[Green Harbor, Mass.] 19—20 (1985): 429; in
IAML
105.
Also published in this issue of
Tendril
is a version of
“The Garden”
that includes the following stanza:
Redoubtable. There’s a word!
It suited him down to the ground.
He’d fished with the rod that belonged to the deceased.
It seemed like a good idea at the time.
But later, he had his doubts.
Tendril
411
The stanza is not preserved in the collected version of “The Garden”.
30
MY DAD’S WALLET
:
1st
in
New York Times Magazine
24 June 1984: 38, accompanying the article “Raymond Carver: A Chronicler of Blue-Collar Despair” by Bruce Weber (36+); in
TW
17—18,
IAML
30—1.
| 30 | of / charges of 1st |
| 39—40 | each of his cheeks as he looked |
| | up from his figures. The same poor light 1st , AUP |
31
ASK HIM
:
1st
in
Tendril
[Green Harbor, Mass.] 19—20 (1985): 407—8; in
IAML
189—91. Based on RC’s revision in the first and all subsequent printings of the paperback edition of
WWCT
(1st pbk.), one emendation has been made to the copy-text (1st ed.). A further revision, present only in
IAML
, is treated as a variant:
| 24 | untroubled 1st pbk. / ordered 1st , AUP, 1st ed. |
| | regulated IAML |
Other variants:
| 2—3 | through the iron gates of |
| | the cemetery in Montparnasse. 1st , AUP |
| 24 | son and / son, or 1st |
| | son or AUP |
| 42 | would / had 1st , AUP |
32
NEXT DOOR
:
1st
in
Tendril
[Green Harbor, Mass.] 19—20 (1985): 421.
| 8 | A / Is a 1st |
33
THE CAUCASUS: A ROMANCE
: in
IAML
171—3.
| 9 | forests / forest AUP |
| 44 | Thursday / Thursdays AUP |
34
A FORGE, AND A SCYTHE
: in
IAML
41.
35
THE PIPE
: in
IAML
124.
| 18 | I’ll / Instead, I’ll AUP |
36
LISTENING
:
1st
in
New Letters
[Univ. of Missouri, Kansas City] 51.2 (Winter 1984—5): 17; in
IAML
168.
37
IN SWITZERLAND
:
1st
in
Tendril
[Green Harbor, Mass.] 19—20 (1985): 425—6; in
IAML
186—8.
38
A SQUALL
:
1st
in
New Letters
[Univ. of Missouri, Kansas City] 51.2 (Winter 1984—5), 14—15; in
IAML
127.
| 24 | in / of 1st , AUP |
In the setting typescript of
WWCT
the poem includes a hand-canceled final stanza:
Now, there’s the bell! That’s all.
Go home and write something
before you die.
39
MY CROW
:
1st
as a holiday greeting card (Concord, NH: William B. Ewert, 1984); in
Poetry
[Chicago, Ill.] 145.5 (Feb. 1985): 253,
IAML
133.
| 8 | there / here AUP |
40
AFTER RAINY DAYS
:
1st
in
New Letters
[Univ. of Missouri, Kansas City] 51.2 (Winter 1984—5): 18; in
IAML
149.
| 11 | breaking / and break 1st |
41
INTERVIEW
:
1st
in
Tendril
[Green Harbor, Mass.] 19—20 (1985):405.
| 1—4 | Talking about myself all day. |
| | It brought back |
| | something I thought over |
| | and done with. What I’d felt 1st |
42
BLOOD
:
1st
in
Grand Street
[New York, NY] 4.2 (Winter 1985): 89; in
IAML
90.
43
TOMORROW
:
1st
in
Ohio Review
[Ohio Univ.] 34 (1985): 12; in
IAML
72.
| 13—14 | Nevertheless, |
| | I wish for tomorrow. In all its finery. 1st |
44
GRIEF
:
1st
in
Poetry
[Chicago, Ill.] 145.5 (Feb. 1985): 254; in
IAML
134.
45
HARLEY’S SWANS
: in
TW
9—10,
IAML
75—6.
| 20 | after / later TW |
46
ELK CAMP
:
1st
in
Tendril
[Green Harbor, Mass.] 19—20 (1985): 423—4; in
IAML
101—2.
| 3 | ever were / ever 1st |
| 8 | coming. / coming! 1st |
| 10 | thrown up / put together 1st |
| 39—42 | behind the shoulder where the heart |
| | and lungs are located. “They might |
| | run, but they won’t run far. Look |
| | at it this way,” my friend said. 1st |
47
THE WINDOWS OF THE SUMMER VACATION HOUSES
:
1st
in
New Letters
[Univ. of Missouri, Kansas City] 51.2 (Winter 1984—5): 12—13.
| 5 | when / where 1st |
48
MEMORY
[1]:
st
in
New Letters
[Univ. of Missouri, Kansas City] 51.2 (Winter 1984—5): 15. See
“Memory” [2]
in
U
.
| 13 | A little / Little 1st |
49
AWAY
: in
Ohio Review
[Ohio Univ.] 34 (1985): 11,
Tendril
[Green Harbor, Mass.] 19—20 (1985): 406.
| 2 | hillside / side of the hill Ohio Review, Tendril , AUP |
| 4 | afterwards / then afterwards Tendril |
| 7—8 | When I talked to you on the phone, |
| | I tried to joke. Don’t worry Ohio Review, Tendril |
| | I talked to you on the phone, |
| | tried to joke. Don’t worry AUP |
| 11 | A week later / Been a week now Ohio Review, Tendril |
| 12 | still haven’t / haven’t Ohio Review, Tendril |
50
MUSIC
: separately published as a holiday greeting card (Concord, NH: William B. Ewert, 1987).
51
ALL HER LIFE
: in
IAML
53.
| 5 | dreamt / dreamed IAML |
52
THE HAT
:
1st
in
Tendril
[Green Harbor, Mass.] 19—20 (1985): 418—19; in
IAML
116—18.
| 10 | all the way / closed 1st |
| 11 | and / but 1st |
| 17 | a / which is a 1st |
53
LATE NIGHT WITH FOG AND HORSES
: in
Ohio Review
[Ohio Univ.] 34 (1985): 6—7,
Tendril
[Green Harbor, Mass.] 19—20 (1985): 422,
IAML
47—8.
| 4 | another / it another Tendril |
| 5—6 | there was someone else. Tears were falling. |
| | When a horse stepped out of the fog Ohio Review, Tendril |
| 17 | yard, where / yard. Where Tendril |
| 28 | ended, / ended. Tendril |
| 29 | something / Something Tendril |
| 36 | a / like a Ohio Review, Tendril |
54
VENICE
:
1st
in
Tendril
[Green Harbor, Mass.] 19—20 (1985): 415; in
IAML
86.
| 6 | Sangallo / Rajione 1st |
| 9 | total, or / total. Or 1st |
| 19 | And history / History AUP |
55
THE EVE OF BATTLE
:
1st
in
Tendril
[Green Harbor, Mass.] 19—20 (1985): 416; in
IAML
169—70.
| 24 | anything. He’s dressed in a morning coat and tails, |
| | as if he’s on his way to some important function. 1st |
56
EXTIRPATION
:
1st
in
Tendril
[Green Harbor, Mass.] 19—20 (1985): 417.
| 9 | each other / one another 1st |
57
THE CATCH
:
1st
in
New Letters
[Univ. of Missouri, Kansas City] 51.2 (Winter 1984—5): 18.
58
MY DEATH
:
1st
in
Ohio Review
[Ohio Univ.] 34 (1985): 13.
| 35 | believe / oh believe 1st |
| | O believe AUP |
59
TO BEGIN WITH
:
1st
in
Ohio Review
[Ohio Univ.] 34 (1985): 8—10; in
IAML
32—4.
| 5 | how every evening / every evening how 1st , AUP |
| 10 | silent / sullen IAML |
60
THE CRANES
:
1st
in
New Letters
[Univ. of Missouri, Kansas City] 51.3 (Spring 1985): 63; in
IAML
77.
61
A HAIRCUT
: in
TW
20—1,
IAML
82—3.
| 7—8 | as the library. There’s a window |
| | there that gives light. Snow’s coming TW |
| 23—4 | Soon, light begins to pull away |
| | from the window. He stares down, lost and IAML |
62
HAPPINESS IN CORNWALL
: in
IAML
84—5.
63
AFGHANISTAN
:
1st
in
Paris Review
[Flushing, NY] 26.93 (Fall 1984): 47; separately published as a broadside “to honor R C on his induction into the American Academy and Institute of Arts and Letters” on 18 May 1988 (Concord, NH: William B. Ewert, 1988).
64
IN A MARINE LIGHT NEAR SEQUIM, WASHINGTON
: in
IAML
28.
65
EAGLES
: in
IAML
100.
66
YESTERDAY, SNOW
:
1st in Grand Street
[New York, NY] 4.2 (Winter 1985): 87; in
IAML
192—3.